Thread 76283745

You're supposed to eat in a caloric surplus to put on muscle. Alright, I get that.
But how does your body know to build it as muscle and not fat?

>>76283745 (OP)
It knows

Because you exercise

>>76283745 (OP)
>>76283745 (OP)
the cells that sort all of your nutrients are very good at their job

>>76283745 (OP)
Because it notices that your muscles are frequently failing to lift a weight, indicating that you need more muscle to do whatever it is you're trying to do

>>76283745 (OP)
Damage muscles. Body responds by trying to repair muscles. Nutrients needed for the repair. Repairs it with added organelles to try to adapt and prevent damage from occurring again which results in hypertrophy. Stores excess as fat to use as fuel for later use.

>>76283745 (OP)
You lift and that causes muscle tears/damage, which in turns creates inflammation inside your muscles. That in turn increases bloodflow to that area, so larger amounts of nutrients go into building muscles. Lifting also increaes testosterone for a period, which has a similar effect
You will still put on fat also. That's why you have to alternate bulk/cut if you want to get really jacked.

>>76283784
But if you cut, aren't you just going to lose that muscle? Since you won't be at a surplus anymore.

>>76283745 (OP)
It will do both, that's why you only want a small surplus to not add too much fat.

>>76283745 (OP)
No you asshole, you eat in a caloric surplus gain WEIGHT. you can gain muscle mass regardless of calorie surplus or deficit if you're consuming enough protein.

Lift.

>>76283954
No, fat is the bodys energy reserve so while you may lose some muscle during your cut the body will try to use up its fat reserves before it self cannibalizes your muscle.

>>76283745 (OP)
That's the neat part, it doesn't. Hence why you eat at a surplus. Your body is thousands of systems all cooperating and competing at the same time. Your injured muscles are emitting hormones and chemicals requesting protein to repair themselves. Other, hungry, cells are requesting anything, sugar, fat, proteins, that they can break down and eat for sustenance. Protein cap isn't actually a hard cap, it's "so much protein that there will be enough proteins bouncing around in your blood that any and all cells requesting them will be sated." The muscles will get the proteins. The other cells will get the proteins (or, ideally, they'll get the sugars and fats first because they actually prefer those and only eat the protein if they have to).

>>76283976
The body will consume both fat and muscle as energy reserves but not at the same rate, it will prioritize keeping the muscle as that is whats more important to replenish the energy spent while in a deficit.

>>76283745 (OP)
What if you want to maintain or put on muscle on a calorie deficit

>>76283745 (OP)
Yoir body will always prioritize tissue repair over fat storage.

>>76283954
Your cells consume the simplest and easiest energy sources first, so sugar in your bloodstream. If there is no sugar, it will then break down fats in your bloodstream into sugar. If there are no sugars or fats it will use a combination of protein in your bloodstream as well as fat from your fat cells. If you have nothing but protein in your bloodstream and not enough fat in your cells, you'll probably die, but in the very short term as your body is breaking down it will begin to consume anything it can in any way that it can.

>>76284018
Eat a shitload of protein dense low calorie foods. Go be like that guy that ate 24 eggs a day.

>>76283954
Yes some of it.
The idea is that after a bulk and then cut period you should weigh more than last time at the same bodyfat %.
Say you are 80kg 12% at the end of a cut. You bulk. Then you cut again. You should be a few kilos more when you reach 12% next time or else you failed.

>>76284036
>Go be like that guy that ate 24 eggs a day.
I do this but way less crazier lol, 6-7 eggs a day on average because my family co owns a farm

>>76283954
Your body would rather lose fat than muscle, because muscle takes considerably more energy to build than burning it for energy gives you back. But yes, you will lose some muscle during a cut, just like how you will gain some fat during a bulk. The overall ratios are beneficial though.
You can minimize muscle loss during a cut by eating sufficient protein and maintaining a reasonable level of exercise. Inactivity and low protein will make muscle loss worse.